Shalom? Salaam? Hell-o?

Anytime there's a hot-button sociopolitical issue flaring up, you will see demonstrations in and around Vestvood.

You've got the area's largest college UCLA, the weird FBI-run Federal Building, and other hotspots like the controversial Mormon Temple (Prop8 central). You'll even regularly see picketers at the Landmark Theatre cineplex in the mall. Last time there I saw was a group of untalented d*ckheads protesting Steven Soderbergh's CHE.

With the Israeli military's brutal attacks on Gaza, the megaphones are turned on again.